
journal entries from my search:
The first date was the hardest to reach, so long this bird was thought to have gone extinct,
NOW, we have the chance to share it with the world!

This photo was taken May 7,2006. I revisted this tree May 21,2006 to find that it had been totally stripped of bark from top to bottom by large woodpeckers. White River National Wildlife Refuge near Burnt Cypress Lake. This area needs to be searched further. Although easy access southern from Cutt Bluff Sough in order to penetrate deeper North of Burnt Cypress is a challenge due to the lack of ATV trails and land marks to keep your bearings. The density of trees greater than 60cm is good, attractively good. I attemped again on May 27th to search this area but was unsuccessful due to just plain old summer conditions and the inability to maintain bearings.